The Riches - TWoP Forums p76:
-My complaint is not that viewers are unintelligent, but that the show underestimates the intelligence of its viewers. I have always maintained that the show is overwritten and overplayed, despite being under developed or explored. Despite having a great premise, it tends to underline, italicize and bold its themes and characters. It offers the dramatic equivalent of captioning, and appears to assume that those watching are deaf, dumb and blind.
As for being taken by what you said: I liked the fact that you also noticed that the show deployed symbolism without drawing overt attention to it. I just didn't like the way you assumed that few people would have noticed, or that it was supposed to register consciously anyway (unlike the show's other use of symbols). If what you say was correct - and I think it was - the loss of (bladder) control by whom? and other fluids was intended to seep from below the surface, and work thematically (or unconsciously).
So props to the show for uncharacteristic restraint and subtlety...and to you for noticing and commenting (albeit in an overly emphatic and seemingly self congratulatory way).
gracefully said, postkantian. (in back & forth with hossrex, who has a post just above).

p71, just after finale aired:
- I was disappointed... I wonder where they will go from here. I can't see them moving back into the house after Sam painted over his mural; that had a sense of finality to it. But as it stands now, they're stuck without a plan, without a distributor cap, with no money that we know of and two (or one, if Dale killed the pathetic Pete) people who are out to get them (and then there's Hartley). This is why I'm not a writer for tv shows. yeah me too. I'm mainly disappointed that we only (& finally, in the 4th & 3rd to end or so) got a couple episodes where they were at all settled and the drama came from their having this life. almost every episode there was a big climactic drama instead. bummer of a use of the premise.